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Meet Our Team

Our multidisciplinary team includes specialists from neonatal follow-up, pulmonary medicine, cardiology, general surgery, nutrition, audiology, social services and more, all with experience caring for children with conditions that cause small lungs.

Gastroenterology

Petar Mamula, MD, is a board certified pediatric gastroenterologist and director of the Kohl's GI Nutrition and Diagnostic Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also co-director of the Center for Digestive, Liver and Pancreatic Medicine, a CHOP/Penn collaborative program.

Jo Ann D'Agostino, DNP, CRNP, is a nurse practitioner in the Neonatal Follow-up Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Areas of Expertise:
Care coordination for children with complex medical needs, Care of the preterm and high-risk infant after NICU discharge, Neurodevelopmental and medical outcomes of preterm and high-risk infants

Marsha Gerdes, PhD, is co-director of the Neonatal Follow-up Program at CHOP and project director of Early to Learn: Partners for School Readiness, School Readiness Initiative.

Areas of Expertise:
Assessment as intervention with infants and preschoolers, Early childhood development, Neurodevelopmental outcome of children with cardiac defects, Neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm infants, Preventive services for children birth to preschool

Speech Therapy

Kimberly Kelly, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She specializes in working with children who have pediatric airway disorders and pulmonary hypoplasia.